Downing Street today denied claims that UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown is currently super-glued to a climate action campaigner.
Dan Glass, says the anti Heathrow expansion group Plane Stupid, infiltrated the State Dining Room of 10 Downing Street on Tuesday evening, then under cover of haranguing him about the third runway at …

Stupid alright.

Because the report says he touched Brown's suit. Not his skin, or shirt, or anything, but his suit.

So all Brown had to do is shrug off the suit and let the police haul Glass away for some, er, "interrogation".

And even if they'd made skin contact they'd have the tools nearby (don't tell me you don't believe Downing St has a full medical staff on standby) ready to separate them - which is much easier to do while the glue's still fresh.

Never fear

Ten points

Forget the practicality of the stunt - ten points to Plane Stupid for finessing the Prime Minister's PR team into the magnificently bird-brained statement that there was "no stickiness of any significance". That's quality, that is.

Water does not work

When I was at university I used to use super glue to fix my diving gear - particularly rips in the rubber on my fins. It would not last forever, but would manage a few months of intensive usage (playing underwater hockey twice a week and scuba diving three times a week) and would then need to be redone.

I prefer to think ...

Silly buggers.

Let's see, we build more airports and fly more planes. The effect is that more people will glue themselves to Gordon Brown. If we build enough airports and fly enough planes, pretty soon we won't be able to see him at all.

Of all the people in the world to get stuck too

@ Stupid alright

"Because the report says he touched Brown's suit. Not his skin, or shirt, or anything, but his suit.

So all Brown had to do is shrug off the suit... "

Way to miss the point, dumbass.

Touching Brown's skin would easily have ended up with him getting done for assault and all the reports being about how dangerous it was. By attaching to the suit, he get's to have his photo splashed all over the media and his statement reprinted.

@JonB - How else to protest?

JonB - writing to your MP doesn't seem to do much, afterall how much fuss has the IT profession kicked up about ID cards and achieved nothing?

Another article today regarding the SF network admin who locked the city out of the IT equipment is a good way to demonstrate a point. I wonder how long it will be before the IT 'profession' realises that it is the most powerful department in any organisation and, if it wants to, can hold the organisation to ransom to prove a point.

@AC @JonB

"I wonder how long it will be before the IT 'profession' realises that it is the most powerful department in any organisation and, if it wants to, can hold the organisation to ransom to prove a point."

Why do you think there isn't an IT workers union? They could hold the whole country to ransom!

@TeeCee

>"Let's see, we build more airports and fly more planes. The effect is that more people will glue themselves to Gordon Brown. If we build enough airports and fly enough planes, pretty soon we won't be able to see him at all."

I have this vision of Gordon being rolled around, Katamari Damashi style.

Re: IT Workers Union

"Because a union requires organization and most of my fellow IT workers (an oxymoron if ever there was one) couldn't organize an orgy in a brothel. They could probably organize a cock-up in one though."

A point with which I can't really argue.

However, the competent ones could form the union and then trick the rest into joining it with the promise of free football tickets (being obsessed with a bunch of over paid posers kicking a leather ball around seems to be about the level of intellectual sophistication required to make it in this profession these days).

Once we've got them on board, it shouldn't be so hard to get them to agree to a strike!